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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM, 



PART HI. 



Garden, which is only 4 ft. high, after having been planted 12 years, 

 and which was received 

 from M. Godefroy, Ville 

 d'Avray, near Paris. 



2345 



• J. c. 5 o.pciulida. (fg. 2345)— We apply this name to a plant at Kew, 



which resembles that in the Horticultural Society's Garden, in 



every respect, except that the habit of the main branches is fasti- 



giate ; and the points of the shoots pendulous. It forms a very 



graceful plant, about 5 ft. high. 

 m J. c. G canadensis, J. canadensis Lodd. Cat., ed. 



1836, (fig. 234'7.) is a handsome vigorous-grow- 

 ing variety, coming near in foliage to J. c. nana ; 



but, as we have only seen a small plant of it in 



the collection of Messrs, Loddiges, we are 



unable to depict the particular feature in which 



it differs from the species. In Lawson's 



Manila/, a variety of this name is referred to 



J. virginiana. 

 a. J. c. 8 dcpressa Pursh FL Amer. Sept., ii. 646., is a native of 



North America, and does not grow above 1 ft. or 2 ft. high ; 



though its root will sometimes cover a space of from 15 ft. to 



20 ft. in diameter. It does not appear to have been introduced. 



Po&siblythismaybethe J. canadensis of Xodrf.t'a/.,No.G.above_ 



Other Varieties. In Loddiges's Catalogue, there are 

 J. cracovia and .7. hibernica, very small plants, but 

 obviously belonging to J. commiinis. There can be no 

 doubt of this, though as in the case of J. c. canadensis 

 in the same collection, we cannot point out in what 

 the difference consists. There are other names cur- 

 rent in the nurseries, in some of which they are applied to .7. commnunis, in 

 others to J. jSabina, and in others to .7. virginiana. 



Description, Src. The common juniper, in its native habitats, is a low 

 sh.-ub, seldom rising more than 3 ft. high, and sending out many spreading 

 tough branches, which incline on every side, and are covered with a smooth 

 brown or reddish bark, with a tinge of purple. The bark of the young 

 branche.s is green ; but that of the trunk and old wood is of a greyish brown, 

 cracked and scaly. Leaves narrow, awl-shaped, ending in acute points, 

 placed by threes round the branches, pointing outwards ; bright green on 

 one side, and grey on the other; continuing throughout the year. The male 



